Important but challenging meditations, applying Jesus to everyday life.

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Recommendations for Your Holiday Meal

When you host a feast this Thanksgiving or Christmas, don't
invite your friends or family. They will expect to do the dishes, or to bring
something, or invite you back to their place next year. Instead, invite the
homeless, the refugees, those in nursing homes, the mentally ill, because the
only reward you could expect then would be from God.

And when you go to a feast, don't boast about all the things
you did this last year, your great accomplishments, and don't expect to be
honored. If you insist upon yourself, you will be a boor, and everyone will
ignore you and try to interrupt you. Instead, sit in the corner and say
nothing. Then your host will note your silence and ask you, "What do you
have to be thankful for this year?" and you will be given honor.

Don't demand respect, or else you will be rejected. Be
humble and you will be given greater respect.

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I'm a pastor of the homeless and mentally ill, and as such I find I am getting more mentally ill every day. I am also a theologian/philosopher, and I am a film butt... I mean buff. Oh, and I take pictures with a cheap digital camera-- that makes me one step lower than an amateur photographer.